The powers of preservation
Subtitle: new life for urban historic places
By: Arthur Cotton Moore.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Washington (D.C.); Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- Washington (D.C.); Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.; Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- United States.
Description: The Powers of Preservation: New Life for Urban Historic Places proposes a sophisticated, and at times controversial retooling of historic preservation in order to reverse our current epidemic of urban decay, neglect and abandonment.

As a pioneer and one of the most prominent architects of the modern preservation movement, Arthur Cotton Moore draws upon more than three decades of professional experience and his enormous portfolio of large-scale rehabilitation projects to show how preservation, by embracing a wider range of historic buildings and a looser attitude toward contextual design, can remedy the visual chaos and economic divestment that now characterize our cities.

He outlines a series of ingeniously simple and realizable steps to use preservation politics, economics, and aesthetics to re-emphasize community and common sense in America's public life and bring our cities and small towns back.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index.